So, there you go, this is the best chance to find out!
And I was concerned when I read that it was being shipped to Japan that they would consider eating it, what with their terrible track record of eating endangered animals.
He wasn't talking about the 'concept' album, we're not talking a Sgt Peppers, or Dark Side of the Moon here (although we could be just as well)... what we're talking about is a collection of songs that you can listen to together, one after the other and they all 'fit' together.
They don't have to have a cohesive story, they don't have to 'be a part' of some larger vision, but they work when played together, and the listener is rewarded from listening to all the tracks on an album, not just the singles.
Really, some of my favourite tracks have never been released as singles, and I'd have never known about them if I didn't buy entire albums.
"Basically only scenes with action music under them." "I guess I like my entertainment for the nutrition, rather than the taste."
Bingo, you've hit on the reason why this is a terrible thing... you can condense any movie, book, tv show, whatever, into a much more compact retelling of the main events of the story. However, in doing so you lose the nuances, the humour, the true spirit of the show (unless it really was terrible to begin with). So often the magic of a show is not in the A-B-C events, but in the stuff in between them.
Having said that, this is not new by any means, Reader's Digest has been doing it for decades with their horrible little condensed versions of books.
It was terribly worded sarcasm if indeed it was, and even if it was, the problem is that WAY too many Slashdotters would have read it and gone 'F*ck yeah man, stick it to the man' without even thinking about what an insanely stupid idea the whole thing is.
The fact that the site has pictures of people just trying to do their shopping being f*cked around by this person highlights how stupid it is.
"If enough people do it, the supermarkets will realize shopping cart DRM is a bad idea."
What the crap are you talking about?
Having shopping carts lock when you try to take them outside the designated area is a perfectly FINE thing for a store to want to do... how many times have you seen shopping trolleys dumped in the most odd places? There's nothing wrong with them trying to stop people stealing their property, they cost a lot of money and should only be used in that area anyway.
My god some people just like to jump up and down whenever anyone is doing something to protect themselves, no matter how just it may be.
At least, I hope a physical medium for purchasing and keeping your music is not on the way out.
I hate downloaded music, I hate having nothing but some files and a printed out cover to show for my money (or no cover etc. if I'm not going to back them up individually).
I love having shelves of cds, with their cover art, their liner notes etc. I love the hard, physical format of them.
I'm forever worried that I'll lose or misplace, erase or whatever the tracks I've legally downloaded...
That worked up until Intel Core... I was a AMD only buyer until then too, but now, Core uses less power, Core is faster at lower clock speeds, Core is just an all round nice guy in the CPU world, it does what it should do much better than AMD.
AMD has no products to effectively compete and is bleeding money because they couldn't come to market quickly enough with an effective counter measure.
Ditto for ATI, under the AMD banner, same problem... they just haven't kept up with the competition.
From being an AMD and ATI user, my new pc in a few weeks will be an Intel nVidia, purely based on price for performance.
Yeah, I guess it is unrealistic to expect a game trailer to actually, you know, show some of the game. Except, that this is, you know, a TEASER... the very sort of thing to just tease you, to let you know that the game really IS coming, and that it seems to be in safe hands... no more, no less.
If this is all they have to do to get you excited, I bet you might explode if a girl said hi to you. Yeah, us married men with kids are really amazed by women's attention.
Yeash.
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No, it's far more advanced than that, as its recognition is able to match objects that are not directly from the same set of photos, or even all photos, some can be diagrams or drawings for example.
Gee, I guess you wanted it to have a myriad of explosions and maybe some tits, and perhaps a few heads being blown off.
It's atmospheric, it hits all the buttons to make fans of the original games excited again (the period music, the old world war posters, the things from the world that was left lying there...
And the game engine looks pretty darn nice.
I have to say I had no idea that Ron Perlman did the voice overs of the last two games, I guess it would be because I didn't know who he was when I played them... but Hellboy as voice over guy... nice:)
It would certainly make me a little more likely to purchase. I hate forgetting which tracks I have paid for and which ones are *ahem* aquired through other means. (Which I do to see if an album is worth buying or not usually)
I'm still a real 'album' kinda guy myself. I tend to not want to get music from artists who have 'just one good track'... I wait until I think the album will be worth it (or listen to samples of the tracks on their website/myspace page) and then just buy the whole thing.
The amount of tracks I've come to love after repeated listening on whole albums, that I wouldn't have given the chance in single form, because I didn't like them much first time through is really quite high.
I love the album and I'm sad to see so many people declaring it a dying thing. The artist being able to throw in tracks that need time to grow on you will be lost if people only buy the tracks they hear on the radio.
You list not having to store a CD as a plus point. I list not having a physical CD being a HUGE negative. I LOVE having the real, professional CD for my music, with cover, lyrics, liner notes etc.
And it's therefore backed up.
I've bought a few tracks online and I really hate either not having them backed up on CD, or having them backed up on a non professional CD, which of course costs me money for the blank and the case anyway, so that ups the price.
"In the end, Apple's move doesn't change our opinion that the best way to acquire digital music remains buying the CD: You can rip and encode it at any bit rate you want, you can transfer it to any device you want, you know you won't have any DRM issues to worry about, and you won't have to pay anything extra for it."
But you, right there said that you NEED that much RAM for games, which is what machines come loaded with these days (if you're lucky)... so they're NOT loaded with more ram than anyone needs.
"Modern machines come loaded with WAY more RAM than anyone needs. "
I'm not even going to read the rest of your post, you are so far wrong there that it's not funny.
I'm running a machine here with 1Gig of RAM and I NEEEED more.
I am running Eclipse IDE, coding Openlaszlo in that, while running Firefox to test the builds of the code that I'm writing.
Java is a memory sucking pig, so my memory is pretty much maxed out just from doing this.
And it's what I do every day, and there are people who need more than that... I'm waiting with baited breath for my new machine with 2Gigs of RAM to arrive, and hope that it's not maxed out by my mundane coding tasks too quickly.
And before you say 'yeah, but you're not a 'normal' user', remember you said "...WAY more RAM than anyone needs. " I'm someone... and I need more, as do my colleagues here.
Oh, Oh... see, that's funny... you know, because this was made by Microsoft, and you know, because they have blue screens of death... and, and...
Urgh, stupendously overdone
Doesn't really happen anymore anyway (I cannot remember AT ALL a time when I've had a BSOD on any of my three XP installs at home, or the one here at work).
But you're explaining exactly WHY this sort of technology is superb... it's because it requires you and your tech brother to transfer files, and burn them etc. etc., and then some quite time consuming and somewhat techy stuff to view them in a way they want to etc.
If you had this as your coffee table, and you could come back from the place you just were, put the camera on the table and then sift through the photos visually, quickly, and just toss the ones that people want into their cameras or music/storage devices etc. then it WOULD become more common because of how easy it was, how intuitive.
If that person, completely non tech minded, can then just go to their friend's place and plonk their device down on their friend's coffee table and instantly be showing them the photos... no tech knowledge required... how is that not cool?
And this is just using photos... extend it to word documents, excel, graphs, all sorts of things and having a large one of these as a meeting desk at work would be fantastic.
Can't you see how damn handy the recognition and interaction with the objects on the table is?
The ability to visually drag and drop items between devices is sensational. A group of friends can sit around a table, all put their phones/cameras on it and show, share and play with the content on those devices... just intuitively
Amazing stuff.
I just showed my colleagues at work the video and they were blown away by how great this would be to use, and that was one Engineer but not deep tech, and one completely non tech person.
Note that only those things which begin to exist need a cause. God, being timeless, has no beginning and therefore no need for a cause. This doesn't mean that God didn't have a cause, just that we have no need to look back further in the chain. We can reasonably stop there. But that supposes that you believe in the concept of 'timelessness'... but we see time marching on all around us. You can argue that time is a construct of man, but that isn't so. We constructed our own units of measurement for it, but completely out of our control things keep being affected by the passage of time. (decay, erosion, etc.) If you're happy to just stop at a point of thinking about things and say... 'well that's all a bit hard to work out, a supreme being must have done it', and then when confronted by where he/she/it came from counter with 'he just always was' seems like such a cop out to me.
the fact is, when we find complex things, it is often the case that these complex things were caused by even more complex things. Dawkins argues that this is not the case. But consider a TV. Is it absurd to think that we should conceive of something more complex than the TV to explain its origins? Of course not. There is nothing irrational about taking one step back to find the cause. Wah? It seems like you get tangled here... Surely the athiest viewpoint is always to think that we can break things down to more and more simple things until we get to the basic root of how and where things come from. To say that we should conceive of something more complex than a tv to explain its origins is absurd... you can break a tv down to all the component parts which in and of themselves are not particularly complex... then build it all back up (via a process of technical evolution mind you, from the first very primitive tvs) until you understand the entire workings of the set.
To say 'I don't understand how life started', and then to just invent a pre-formed, always being entity to explain it all away is, really, just giving up.
I have not read Dawkin's books, but I have seen him talk and I really do agree with what he says, and he comes from the point of view of seeing science being eroded and held back by religious groups who want people to just stop thinking and believe in a book of dubious origin...
As per the AC comment along with this, how does it make it any easier to believe?
I have the issue of what came before the universe, you've got the problem of what came before your god.
It's the same issue... although mine is easier (although I can't wrap my head around either scenario) because I just have to imagine how ANYTHING came into being, no matter how small or simple. You have to imagine how a hugely complex omnipotent being just popped into existence.
I know which one I have less trouble with.
As for common design vs common descent... common descent works better because we have things which have NO use at all to us in us (the coccyx as a left over for a tail has no use for us)... and why do men have nipples? It's purely excuse making to suggest that it's to do with common design, as the designer (ie God) is a pretty sloppy creature maker if he kept using bits from other animals in ones that he kinda, shouldn't have.
But they're completely prepared to believe in there being some all omnipotent being that exists that just 'created' out of thin air a bunch of fully formed animals, with easily identifiable traits that you can see where one type of animal has evolved from another... they just 'made them like that'.
I find it much more easy to believe in things starting off very simple and slowly evolving and changing, and various new strains adapting to the areas they find themselves in until over millions of years you start having many quite disparate things starting to evolve.
It's just so much easier to believe in, because it makes sense.
But the video is 10 minutes long, and copyright used to be 14 years, not 17...
But I agree with your stance, I don't see why a creator of a work shouldn't have copyright over that work for the length of their life... and a company should have copyright for the length of an average human life or so.
All the video showed was a board room with a wall with video streams coming in to choose from, why do you have to go through the hassle of firing up a 3d world, walking your avatar to the boardroom, aligning your in game view to the screen properly etc?
All you should do is fire up a webpage or app that has the video streams on it, end of story
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Hah, you know, I was about to say "We already know what Mammoth tastes like as early explorers who found similar frozen specimens ate them"... but, well, I was wrong, no-one in modern times has to anyone's knowledge actually eaten mammoth meat.
So, there you go, this is the best chance to find out!
And I was concerned when I read that it was being shipped to Japan that they would consider eating it, what with their terrible track record of eating endangered animals.
He wasn't talking about the 'concept' album, we're not talking a Sgt Peppers, or Dark Side of the Moon here (although we could be just as well)... what we're talking about is a collection of songs that you can listen to together, one after the other and they all 'fit' together.
They don't have to have a cohesive story, they don't have to 'be a part' of some larger vision, but they work when played together, and the listener is rewarded from listening to all the tracks on an album, not just the singles.
Really, some of my favourite tracks have never been released as singles, and I'd have never known about them if I didn't buy entire albums.
"Basically only scenes with action music under them."
"I guess I like my entertainment for the nutrition, rather than the taste."
Bingo, you've hit on the reason why this is a terrible thing... you can condense any movie, book, tv show, whatever, into a much more compact retelling of the main events of the story. However, in doing so you lose the nuances, the humour, the true spirit of the show (unless it really was terrible to begin with). So often the magic of a show is not in the A-B-C events, but in the stuff in between them.
Having said that, this is not new by any means, Reader's Digest has been doing it for decades with their horrible little condensed versions of books.
Urgh
Look at who it's compiled by.
ALWAYS look at the source of any 'list', 'survey', or stats.
This is Edge, it's by far a console heavy magazine, they only really have PC there to try and make 'everyone' buy it.
No, they're not an unbiased source for this sort of list.
I far more trust the opinions of sites like http://gamespot.com/ or the like, as they have true PC sections.
It was terribly worded sarcasm if indeed it was, and even if it was, the problem is that WAY too many Slashdotters would have read it and gone 'F*ck yeah man, stick it to the man' without even thinking about what an insanely stupid idea the whole thing is.
The fact that the site has pictures of people just trying to do their shopping being f*cked around by this person highlights how stupid it is.
"If enough people do it, the supermarkets will realize shopping cart DRM is a bad idea."
What the crap are you talking about?
Having shopping carts lock when you try to take them outside the designated area is a perfectly FINE thing for a store to want to do... how many times have you seen shopping trolleys dumped in the most odd places? There's nothing wrong with them trying to stop people stealing their property, they cost a lot of money and should only be used in that area anyway.
My god some people just like to jump up and down whenever anyone is doing something to protect themselves, no matter how just it may be.
Bah to you sir, bah indeed.
At least, I hope a physical medium for purchasing and keeping your music is not on the way out.
I hate downloaded music, I hate having nothing but some files and a printed out cover to show for my money (or no cover etc. if I'm not going to back them up individually).
I love having shelves of cds, with their cover art, their liner notes etc. I love the hard, physical format of them.
I'm forever worried that I'll lose or misplace, erase or whatever the tracks I've legally downloaded...
I want physical music delivery to remain dammit!
That worked up until Intel Core... I was a AMD only buyer until then too, but now, Core uses less power, Core is faster at lower clock speeds, Core is just an all round nice guy in the CPU world, it does what it should do much better than AMD.
AMD has no products to effectively compete and is bleeding money because they couldn't come to market quickly enough with an effective counter measure.
Ditto for ATI, under the AMD banner, same problem... they just haven't kept up with the competition.
From being an AMD and ATI user, my new pc in a few weeks will be an Intel nVidia, purely based on price for performance.
Yeash.
No, it's far more advanced than that, as its recognition is able to match objects that are not directly from the same set of photos, or even all photos, some can be diagrams or drawings for example.
The part that blew me away is the SeaDragon technology behind the image/information scaling portion of things... now that is just incredible... check out a talk/demo at TED on March of 2007 by Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft, just amazing stuff.
Gee, I guess you wanted it to have a myriad of explosions and maybe some tits, and perhaps a few heads being blown off.
:)
It's atmospheric, it hits all the buttons to make fans of the original games excited again (the period music, the old world war posters, the things from the world that was left lying there...
And the game engine looks pretty darn nice.
I have to say I had no idea that Ron Perlman did the voice overs of the last two games, I guess it would be because I didn't know who he was when I played them... but Hellboy as voice over guy... nice
It would certainly make me a little more likely to purchase. I hate forgetting which tracks I have paid for and which ones are *ahem* aquired through other means. (Which I do to see if an album is worth buying or not usually)
I'm still a real 'album' kinda guy myself. I tend to not want to get music from artists who have 'just one good track'... I wait until I think the album will be worth it (or listen to samples of the tracks on their website/myspace page) and then just buy the whole thing.
The amount of tracks I've come to love after repeated listening on whole albums, that I wouldn't have given the chance in single form, because I didn't like them much first time through is really quite high.
I love the album and I'm sad to see so many people declaring it a dying thing. The artist being able to throw in tracks that need time to grow on you will be lost if people only buy the tracks they hear on the radio.
You list not having to store a CD as a plus point. I list not having a physical CD being a HUGE negative. I LOVE having the real, professional CD for my music, with cover, lyrics, liner notes etc.
And it's therefore backed up.
I've bought a few tracks online and I really hate either not having them backed up on CD, or having them backed up on a non professional CD, which of course costs me money for the blank and the case anyway, so that ups the price.
No... real CDs are still my favourite.
The bit that I completely agree with?
"In the end, Apple's move doesn't change our opinion that the best way to acquire digital music remains buying the CD: You can rip and encode it at any bit rate you want, you can transfer it to any device you want, you know you won't have any DRM issues to worry about, and you won't have to pay anything extra for it."
Done.
But you, right there said that you NEED that much RAM for games, which is what machines come loaded with these days (if you're lucky)... so they're NOT loaded with more ram than anyone needs.
"Modern machines come loaded with WAY more RAM than anyone needs. "
I'm not even going to read the rest of your post, you are so far wrong there that it's not funny.
I'm running a machine here with 1Gig of RAM and I NEEEED more.
I am running Eclipse IDE, coding Openlaszlo in that, while running Firefox to test the builds of the code that I'm writing.
Java is a memory sucking pig, so my memory is pretty much maxed out just from doing this.
And it's what I do every day, and there are people who need more than that... I'm waiting with baited breath for my new machine with 2Gigs of RAM to arrive, and hope that it's not maxed out by my mundane coding tasks too quickly.
And before you say 'yeah, but you're not a 'normal' user', remember you said "...WAY more RAM than anyone needs. " I'm someone... and I need more, as do my colleagues here.
Oh, Oh... see, that's funny... you know, because this was made by Microsoft, and you know, because they have blue screens of death... and, and...
Urgh, stupendously overdone
Doesn't really happen anymore anyway (I cannot remember AT ALL a time when I've had a BSOD on any of my three XP installs at home, or the one here at work).
Urgh.
But you're explaining exactly WHY this sort of technology is superb... it's because it requires you and your tech brother to transfer files, and burn them etc. etc., and then some quite time consuming and somewhat techy stuff to view them in a way they want to etc.
:)
If you had this as your coffee table, and you could come back from the place you just were, put the camera on the table and then sift through the photos visually, quickly, and just toss the ones that people want into their cameras or music/storage devices etc. then it WOULD become more common because of how easy it was, how intuitive.
If that person, completely non tech minded, can then just go to their friend's place and plonk their device down on their friend's coffee table and instantly be showing them the photos... no tech knowledge required... how is that not cool?
And this is just using photos... extend it to word documents, excel, graphs, all sorts of things and having a large one of these as a meeting desk at work would be fantastic.
I welcome our new interactive table overlords.
Dear god, could you be any more negative?
Can't you see how damn handy the recognition and interaction with the objects on the table is?
The ability to visually drag and drop items between devices is sensational. A group of friends can sit around a table, all put their phones/cameras on it and show, share and play with the content on those devices... just intuitively
Amazing stuff.
I just showed my colleagues at work the video and they were blown away by how great this would be to use, and that was one Engineer but not deep tech, and one completely non tech person.
I'm very excited about interfaces like this.
To say 'I don't understand how life started', and then to just invent a pre-formed, always being entity to explain it all away is, really, just giving up.
I have not read Dawkin's books, but I have seen him talk and I really do agree with what he says, and he comes from the point of view of seeing science being eroded and held back by religious groups who want people to just stop thinking and believe in a book of dubious origin...
It's very frustrating to see it happen.
As per the AC comment along with this, how does it make it any easier to believe?
I have the issue of what came before the universe, you've got the problem of what came before your god.
It's the same issue... although mine is easier (although I can't wrap my head around either scenario) because I just have to imagine how ANYTHING came into being, no matter how small or simple. You have to imagine how a hugely complex omnipotent being just popped into existence.
I know which one I have less trouble with.
As for common design vs common descent... common descent works better because we have things which have NO use at all to us in us (the coccyx as a left over for a tail has no use for us)... and why do men have nipples? It's purely excuse making to suggest that it's to do with common design, as the designer (ie God) is a pretty sloppy creature maker if he kept using bits from other animals in ones that he kinda, shouldn't have.
But they're completely prepared to believe in there being some all omnipotent being that exists that just 'created' out of thin air a bunch of fully formed animals, with easily identifiable traits that you can see where one type of animal has evolved from another... they just 'made them like that'.
I find it much more easy to believe in things starting off very simple and slowly evolving and changing, and various new strains adapting to the areas they find themselves in until over millions of years you start having many quite disparate things starting to evolve.
It's just so much easier to believe in, because it makes sense.
OK, maybe I do...
But the video is 10 minutes long, and copyright used to be 14 years, not 17...
But I agree with your stance, I don't see why a creator of a work shouldn't have copyright over that work for the length of their life... and a company should have copyright for the length of an average human life or so.
All the video showed was a board room with a wall with video streams coming in to choose from, why do you have to go through the hassle of firing up a 3d world, walking your avatar to the boardroom, aligning your in game view to the screen properly etc?
All you should do is fire up a webpage or app that has the video streams on it, end of story